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Recent IELTS exams

Real students tell about their recent IELTS exams: IELTS questions, topics, tasks, answers.

IELTS exam in India, Delhi – January 2009 (Academic Module)

This update was brought to me by T.K. from Delhi, India who sat Academic IELTS exam some days ago. Thank you for sharing!

Writing test

Writing task 1 (report)
We had to describe a bar graph with figures of unemployed people in European Union in the period between 1990 to 2002 (comparison in 4 years groups, i.e. 1990..1994..1996..2002).

Writing task 2 (essay)
Increasing the number of machine has helped us to reduce the number of people involved in hard physical work, which is a good outcome. Some people disagree with this point of view, discuss.

Speaking test

Interview
– What do you do
– Are you satisfied with what you do
– Then there were questions about a museum
– How often do you go to a museum
– What kind of museums do you go to
– What is the importance of museums in our life
– Do you do gardening
– What do you grow in your garden
– Do you grow vegetables of flowers

Cue Card
Describe any new law you know, you should say
– what is it
– what it does
– what is the importance of law in our life
– under what conditions we can break the law

Discussion
– TV news are more interesting than informative, please comment
– What kind of news do you watch
– What do you like to see in the news in newspaper
– How often you read newspapers and when, on what occasions

IELTS exam in Saudi Arabia – January 2009 (Academic Module)

M. from Saudi Arabia sent me this update after his Academic IELTS exam and he remembers a lot! This is probably because he wrote down the topics right after the exam.

Reading test

Passage 1 – about Alfred Nobel.
Passage 2 – modern and traditional construction materials (too long).
Passage 3 – babies, are they born with knowledge or they acquire it ? (too long and difficult).

Writing test

Writing Task 1 (report)
Bar chart with 3 bars representing the unemployment percentage for
1 – all workers,
2 – manual workers,
3 – professional workers
in the European Union in the period between 1900 and 2002.

Writing task 2 (essay)
Depending on machines for hard physical work is replacing the human role. State the advantages and disadvantages.

Speaking test

Interview
What is your full name?
Tell me about your city.
Do you like going to parties?
What kind of parties?
Is it popular with young or old people?

Cue Card

Tell me about your best friend, you should say:
– How and when you met him/her?
– What does he/she look like?
– What do you do together?
– Why you like him/her?

Discussion
I was asked questions about other type of relationships.
What do you think about relationships at work?
Work places need good relationships among workers?
Do international events help to ease tension between nations or not?